In a brisk 81 minutes, Sandberg spins this shivery campfire yarn with such skill and verve that the only thing that matters is making it to the final “boo.” Fortunately, the frights are supplemented by strong, nuanced performances by Bello, Palmer and, especially, Bateman, each of whom delivers a character portrayal that defies horror stereotyping of the wacko, the bad girl and the helpless child.Īs the older sister’s preternaturally loyal boyfriend, Alexander DiPersia is also surprisingly good, in a role that could so easily have become the weaselly caricature we have seen so often. You know what? You won’t care about any of that once things get going.
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The back story - which screenwriter Eric Heisserer unpeels, in flashback, less skillfully than Sandberg’s stylish, exquisitely controlled direction deserves - has something to do with Mom’s previous commitment to a mental institution, a character with a rare and implausible skin condition, and an experimental medical treatment that goes horribly, tragically awry. Called Diana, she’s a (possibly imaginary) friend of their mentally unstable mother (Maria Bello), whose refusal to take her medication has been making Diana’s appearances increasingly frequent and terrifying.
Produced by horror impresario James Wan of “The Conjuring” as an expansion of Sandberg’s acclaimed, less-than-three-minute-long 2013 short, “Lights Out” sounds, on paper, fairly preposterous: A rebellious young woman and her dutiful little brother (Teresa Palmer and Gabriel Bateman) are terrorized by a woman – who may be dead, supernatural, metaphorical or some combination of all three. Sandberg - that doesn’t lessen the satisfyingly creepy impact of the trick. Just because you know how the scare works - and work it does, again and again and again, in this low-tech yet artful feature debut by David F.
The film’s central conceit of a mysterious, malevolent figure who appears only when the lights are out, and who disappears, physically as well as visibly, with the flip of a light switch, is enormously, even irrationally, effective. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuįor a movie that relies so heavily on a single, not especially groundbreaking visual effect - now you see the bogeyman, now you don’t - “Lights Out” is crazy scary.
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